Remain At Your Desk turns office compliance cyberpunk
Remain At Your Desk is a coming-soon cyberpunk incremental clicker on Steam where you fake productivity by day and break into your employer’s network by night. The pitch mixes workplace satire, hacking loops, and creeping horror through the CONDUIT, an entity that starts responding to your keystrokes and escalates the sense that the terminal is no longer fully under your control. The Steam page frames it as a strategy/simulation hybrid with upgrades, personas, suspicion management, and story fragments tied to Project LIGHTHOUSE and Floor 13.
Hot take: this is a strong hook because it fuses two fantasies that usually live apart, power gaming and office resentment, then adds a horror layer that gives the system a personality.
- –The theme is immediately legible and memetic: “work by day, hack by night” sells fast.
- –The CONDUIT mechanic gives the game a signature horror wrapper instead of just being another hacking idle game.
- –The Steam page suggests real structure, with upgrades, personas, and suspicion systems that should support replayability.
- –The biggest risk is tonal overload; the game will need tight writing and UI clarity to keep the satire, strategy, and horror from fighting each other.
- –The Reddit post is low-signal on engagement, but the concept itself is much stronger than the current score suggests.
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62d ago
2026-04-08
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62d ago
2026-04-08
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